Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show of Labor strength it had been a spectacular success-vastly inconveniencing the 66,000 residents of that Indiana manufacturing & mining centre by cutting off food supplies, stopping streetcars, taxis and trucks, closing stores and filling stations, bringing the city under martial law and causing a few brushes between guardsmen and strikers. But as an effective effort to achieve Labor's ends it had proved, like San Francisco's general strike last year and Seattle's in 1919, a strikeout. Still" on hand when it was over were the 58 armed company guards whose injection into...
...were John D. Hertz, Jack Dempsey, Postmaster General Farley, Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane and J. H. Louchheim of Philadelphia, who bet $1,000 on his Morpluck and then contrived to lose his pari-mutuel tickets to a pickpocket who got no good out of them. A squad of National Guardsmen used clubs to keep the spectators in the infield under control. The spectators threw chairs at the guardsmen...
...Bedford, May 2--The 108-foot British oil screw vessel, Accuracy, was detained by Coast Guards at New Bedford today while Customs Officials and guardsmen hunted 3000 cases of smuggled liquor, valued at $50,000, reported landed and concealed somewhere between Nonquitt and Smith's Neck during the night...
...were shot, one fatally. In a wholly irrelevant brawl, a white man was so badly beaten by Negroes that he died within 72 hours. With their streets swarming with police afoot, in squad cars and on horseback, the Harlem Merchants Association wildly telegraphed Governor Lehman at Albany for National Guardsmen...
Miami, Fla., Feb. 28--National Guardsmen sped tonight toward lower Matecambe Key where 400 war veterans were is revolt against living conditions on a government relief project...